The ripples of anxiety from last month’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on peer-to-peer software haven’t quite made it to Jonathan Nilson’s home in Tallahassee, Fla. Nilson, a programmer who has been working on peer-to-peer software called Shareaza for several years, says the loose band of developers who share responsibility for the open-source project haven’t been dissuaded from their work by the court ruling, which is casting a dark legal cloud over the future of companies such as Grokster and LimeWire.
Nilson cautions that neither he nor anyone else can speak with authority on behalf of the project as a whole. For the most part, that’s exactly why he and the others feel sheltered. As is the case with many loosely organized, open-source programming projects, there is no central entity, no "Shareaza" company or organization that issues paychecks or answers lawyers’ telephone calls.
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